Hi,

On 27/07/2022 22:23, Thiago Macieira wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 July 2022 11:47:20 PDT Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
wrote:
Right now, if one selects "LTS" and "Latest releases" (and *not*
"Archive"), one gets

* 6.3.1
* 6.2.4
* 5.15.2

all of which are bugged AFAICT?

Non-commercial customers shouldn't even see the option for LTS, since it's not
LTS for them. There should only be "Latest releases".

Yes, it means that to find Qt 5, you'll need to go look in the Archive.


Trying to summarize:

1) The current opensource binary downloads, marked "LTS" / "Latest releases", are all bugged. Given they will never get a binary update for 5.15 or 6.2, I don't think it makes any sense to keep them available under those labels -- they should be in "Archive" or so.

6.3.2 should be released in a few weeks and I'm assuming will contain the fix in question? (As well as being provided as binary downloads.)


2) The current *source* downloads for 5.15 (esp. the latest, 5.15.5) don't have a clean patch against them.

Yes, one could always build Qt against a vanilla fixed Freetype, or replace (if that's easy/possible) the freetype in src/3rdparty/, that's not the point though.


3) Most importantly: will the _future_ source downloads for 5.15 / 6.2 (e.g. 5.15.6, due in September) also be affected? I'd assume yes, if they're faithful to the "tagging" in the repositories, done a year ago.

Are further patches (that apply against them) going to be published? Or will it be the case that 5.15.6 isn't really going to be a "release", but mostly something like "5.15.6's source is now publicly accessible"?

(To me it makes zero sense to "release" something with known vulnerabilities.)


Thanks,

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